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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1992, for how many prisoners had McMillian's team won relief in death penalty cases?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

2. How old was Evan Miller when he began attempting to commit suicide?
(a) 7.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 11.

3. When were laws enacted to make involuntary commitment to a mental institution more difficult?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1960s and 1970s.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1950s and 1960s.

4. Where was Clarence Brantley from?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Texas.
(d) Mississippi.

5. How old was Trina Garnett when she was sent to an adult prison for women?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Stevenson's receptionist in Chapter 11?

2. What was the name of the police office who was first on the scene where Morrison was killed?

3. In Chapter 11, how many years ago had an African American civil rights lawyer in Savannah, Georgia, named Robert Robinson been murdered by a bomb exploding in his office?

4. What did Harcourt do before going to law school?

5. Where did Michael O'Connor go to law school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Bernard Harcourt's background?

2. What was Sullivan like in 1989, and what was his home life like?

3. What campaign was lead by Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Wright in the late nineteenth century?

4. What was Joe Sullivan indicted for and why?

5. Why did Stevenson's office in Atlanta sue Angola Prison?

6. What were conditions like at Tutwiler Prison?

7. What was Judge Norton's ruling on McMillian's appeal in Chapter 11?

8. In Chapter 7, what did Stevenson bring up in the brief he filed?

9. What issues were there when Stevenson got to the courtroom on the second day of the Rule 32 Hearing?

10. Where did McMillian decided to live in Chapter 13?

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